Last week Thursday we sat outside the labour ward at the Parklane Clinic in Johannesburg waiting for news. My daughter in law was having a baby and…
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Dear Ruby Sophia
Dear Ruby Sophia, Allow me to introduce myself to you. I am your father’s father. Everyone says that you should call me Grumpy. I am assuming they…
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Who Gets to Mess with Mandela
In one of the more irreverent and more entertaining tweets I have stumbled across, “Bra Suffocate” wrote; “Uct now has a Mandela school of public governance. Everything…
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The Exhausted Early Bird
This Friday morning, in the dead of winter, was when my wife decided that it is time to become an early riser. She most likely watched a…
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Unlocking Optimism
South African entrepreneurs have one singular advantage that makes them stand out and succeed – optimism. Game drives. There is a remarkable similarity between the South African…
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What If the Thai Soccer Team Boys Had Been Jewish?
Like many around the world, I watched with wonder and amazement how politics and religion were set aside in order to save the Thai youngsters and their…
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I Dodged the Draft
My late grandmother made aliya from South Africa at 86 years of age. When at the time I asked her if she was concerned about having to…
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Being (Almost) Fifty
I was quick to embrace my first midlife crises. I went full throttle in my early 40s where I changed career direction, wrote a few books, re-evaluated…
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I Will Not Recycle In The Dark
The City of Johannesburg has just announced that the city is going green. Soon, they tell us, residents of the city will be recycling the hell out…
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